Since less than a month ago, Jordanian Umniah started providing 3.75G internet services. My brother wanted to buy a new internet connection. We had many wireless options including Zain, WiTribe, Umniah WiMax, and Orange.

The prices which Uminah offered were very low compared to other operators not to mentione a promised speed of up to 42.2 MB/Second. My brother wanted a download limit of 10 GB. This comes in return for 10 JDs per month not including a sales tax of 8%.

Personally, because of the low prices and the promised high speed, I believed that there could be hidden fees or that the internet speed will be slow. But we did not have an option because for the same price, Zain gives you a download limit of only 5 GB.

Therefore, we took the plunge of buying a internet flash from Umniah. We bought a flash for a price of about 18 JD which gives you a speed of up to ~4MB/sec as the customer service empolyee said. Are we happy now that we have bought the flash memory?

We are absoultely happy. The internet speed is not less than 4 MB/sec in 90% of my testing it in speedtest.net. I am currently in Safout Amman. I do not know if the situation is the same in Karak. The customer services employee, however, said that the internet coverage is available wherever Umniah mobile coverage is available.

What is more important, you do not need to download an application like Zain interent flash requires. The installation process takes seconds and you are online.

For making internet available to a higher percentage of Jordanians at high speeds and at low prices. I say to Umniah: Thank you! I really love this company!

Update 05/10/2013:

Now, almost one year after we first used Umniah 3G service, we are no longer continuing with it. The interent speed is very slow most hours of the day especially in the evening and at night. My brother many times called the customer care center. However, other than many promises of solving the problem, we did not receive anything. The service is still very bad! Almost two weeks ago, my brother stopped charging his Umniah Internet Dongle!

We are back now to use Umniah 3G Internet services. The speed is back quick. Some times, the speed drops toward mednight. At other times, the internet stops working for few minutes, again, toward midnight. But overall, the internet speed is high and I can watch YouTube videos at reolution of 360 without interruption. Here are Speedtest results (05:09 PM):

Finally, and most importantly, there is now an imaginary offer by Umniah. For 15 JD each month, you can get 30 GB of donwload limit. This is crazy! In the past, we paid 10 JD for 10 GB. With extra 5 JD, you get 20 extra GB of download limit!!! To the best of my knowledge, this destroys all offers by other companies, beginning with Zain, which by the way has the worst internet offers in Jordan!

28 Comments:

Thank you for posting about umniah evo internet … I have tow questions for you. first, if you use all the download limit which is 10 GB, can you recharge it agian and get another 10gb or you have to wait till the end of the month cycle and reset the download limit. second, why your internet connection speed is up to 4MB , while in evo ads they said it’s up to 42 MB .
I’d like to know more about your experience with this new internet service and any problem you faced while using it

– Yes, you can recharge it again at any time and you do not need to wait till the end of the month.
– Your question about why the speed is 4 MBPS is legitimate. I failed to comment on this in the post. This depends on the speed of the internet dongle you buy. For approximately 17+-2, my brother bought a dongle of a speed of 7 point somthing MBPS. If you pay more, you will buy a dongle that will give you higher speed. I remember that my brother told me that there are dongles that cost up to 50 JDs if not more! Such dongles can give you a speed close to 42 MB.
– The service is amazing and I and my brother did not change our first impression about it. However, Zain now gives you 100 GB of free download to use them as up to 3.33 GB per day to use them between 12-8 AM. Unfortunately, Umniah do not yet give any free download time!

As far as I know, the Umniah app comes stored on the flash memory and cannot be removed from it. Moreover, the application cannot be uploaded to the interent. If you are in doubt, you can call the customer services.